‘I find Islam to be liberating not oppressive: women are partners’

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'I lost faith. I couldn’t walk past a church without sobbing,' said Sarah JosephEmel magazine

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Published at 12:01AM, December 29 2010

Sarah Joseph, 39, who is married with three children, edits the Muslim lifestyle magazine Emel. “My first engagement with Islam came about when my brother embraced the faith in order to marry,” she said. “He fell in love with a beautiful Muslim woman and he converted.

“I was a devout and practising Roman Catholic. I felt he had done something very wrong. Then my mother told me Muslims believed Jesus was born of a Virgin. I happened to be in a library and picked up the Koran. Then, by and by, I lost my faith in the Catholic Church.